Anson Funderburgh, Sam Myers, and Lee Oskar the Grand Emporium
Sam Myers, wearing a harmonica belt filled with harmonicas and clutching a harmonica he is blowing into, stands in the middle of the stage between Anson Funderburgh, playing a guitar to Sam's back...
Bobby Bland and Lee Oskar at the Grand Emporium
Bobby Bland, Lee Oskar, and others perform as one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium. Bobby Bland looks to his left shoulder towards Lee Oskar as Lee looks down and plays an amplified...
Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch at the Grand Emporium
Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage in a triangle facing each other. Chris plays an electric guitar and lifts his...
Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush, DC Bellamy and Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox
Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush and a group of six unidentified people stand behind a seated DC Bellamy. Marvine McKeithen stands beside DC Bellamy at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.
DC Bellamy at the Club Paradox
DC Bellamy, wearing a fedora and holding a drink, points a finger at a patron seated at a table as he regales them with a story at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The audience and seated and...
Duck Warner, Hugh Ruddick, Len Bacoski, and Richard Townsend outside on a bench
Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the bench but sitting on the arm of the bench with...
Four Fried Chickens & a Coke at the Grand Emporium
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke pose for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Back row: Holding a bass is Landon Murray. Wearing a fedora and a tie is Bill Whitehead. Kenny Richardson holds a saxophone and...
Honeyboy Edwards at BB's Lawnside Bar-B-Q
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the national acts to perform during the Acoustic Blues Showcase at BB's Lawnside BBQ, wearing a baseball cap, sits among the audience of mostly white men as he sings...
Larry Garner at Club Paradox
Larry Garner, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified white male keyboard player, and a drummer, and an African American male...
Mac Odom at the Grand Emporium
Mac Odom, Roomful of Blues, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from below, opens his mouth wide as he sings into a microphone held in his left hand and partly obstructing his...
Magic Slim and June Bug at Knuckleheads
Magic Slim, wearing a cowboy hat and a t-shirt of himself and June Bug, puts his arm around "June Bug" John Stuerke who is wearing the same t-shirt. They smile directly at the photographer during the...
Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002
Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley stand on the street for a photograph during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovie Grant, and Aaron Hodge at the Street Blues Festival 2002
Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovy Grant, and Aaron Hodge stand on the street laughing and looking at the photographer during the Kansas City, Kansas...
Rosco Gordon and Duke Robillard at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Rosco Gordon, wearing leather pants, leather fringed jacket, and a flat cap, stands and sings into a microphone to the right of Duke Robillard, who is smiling as he plays an electric guitar during the...